Did partisan politics 'terminate' doyenne?
Speculation links Diane Ravitch’s criticism of Romney with thinktank exit. Jon Marcus writes
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The week in higher education
• About one in seven state schools did not send a single pupil to a Russell Group university in 2009-10, the Financial Times reported on 18 July. Some 330 schools - 15 per cent - sent no children to...
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Leader: Little buy-in for market dreams
The government expected price sensitivity and consumer choice to drive down degree costs, but that's not happening
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Off Piste - Hive talking
Can useful parallels be drawn between apiculture and running a university? Ruth Farwell does both and isn’t sure, but one thing’s for certain: in both pursuits, losing your cool can sting
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From Where I Sit - Do the rite thing
I have just chaired my first doctoral defence in Sweden. About 50 people were in attendance - nearly filling the high-tiered old lecture hall where the defence was held - including the candidate's...
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Odds and quads
A Brown University chemistry class from the 1870s poses for a photograph on the steps of Rogers Hall (now the Salomon Center) as a professor, John Appleton, appears to watch current students leaving...
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Appointments
Leeds College of MusicCharlie SiemA rising classical music star has added an academic post at an English institution to his accolades. Virtuoso violinist Charlie Siem has been named visiting...
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26 July 2012
Kindred intellects - When the academy is in the blood
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Shakespeare: Staging the World
Peter J. Smith on a fresh view of the Bard via the prism of materiality and the playwright’s own socio-historical moment
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Having none of it
Life/work imbalance hits women harder. But despair not, says Sally Feldman
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Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Mascots, especially animals, play a big role in the multibillion-dollar business of US university marketing. Is it all just fun, asks David Mould, or have we gone too far in allowing corporatised...
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The family business
Matthew Reisz speaks to scholars with learned bloodlines about the inspirations, insights and rebellions that come with growing up in the very midst of the academy
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Competition forces groups and members to jockey for position
John Morgan assesses the impact of policy changes on mission group dynamics
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Tony Rich, 1954-2012
A registrar who was "admired and respected throughout the sector", and who played an important role in the professional development of non-academic staff, has died.Tony Rich was born in Norfolk on 26...
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